HAL Tejas Jet Fighter
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and further confirmation comes from Saurav Jha, DRDO's unofficial spokesperson
All stakeholders are onboard with the Mk-1A configuration. Broad improvements: Uttam AESA, maintainability improvements, MAWS, DFCC Mk-2 etc
There'll be no IOC/ FOC campaign per se for the Mk-1A. The improvements will be made concurrently with the production process.
Uttam AESA is expected to be ready for airborne testing soon. Ground based testing has delivered encouraging results.
Modi would leave an enduring legacy if he can get everybody to work together to churn out the Tejas in numbers.
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summarising my last 4-5 posts
126 is a given, Long live the YELL-CEE-YAY
DRDO still hopes to put its own UTTAM AESA on board the LCA Mk1A
but HAL wants Elta 2052 AESA
and that may lead to problems.
All stakeholders are onboard with the Mk-1A configuration. Broad improvements: Uttam AESA, maintainability improvements, MAWS, DFCC Mk-2 etc
There'll be no IOC/ FOC campaign per se for the Mk-1A. The improvements will be made concurrently with the production process.
Uttam AESA is expected to be ready for airborne testing soon. Ground based testing has delivered encouraging results.
Modi would leave an enduring legacy if he can get everybody to work together to churn out the Tejas in numbers.
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summarising my last 4-5 posts
126 is a given, Long live the YELL-CEE-YAY
DRDO still hopes to put its own UTTAM AESA on board the LCA Mk1A
but HAL wants Elta 2052 AESA
and that may lead to problems.
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Zool
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I don't want to be a downer but history and those conditional statements you quoted keep me skeptical as to what exactly has been agreed (If anything) between MoD-IAF and HAL on design and numbers for immediate manufacture and induction.
Has HAL and/or associated suppliers confirmed 100+ unit orders and their current efforts to begin ramp up to achieve those numbers? The reports on MK1-A to be accepted instead of the current MK1 also seem strange to me as they speak of a 1000kg weight reduction on an approx. 6500kg aircraft; that seems pretty spectacular to me. Also now a full AESA Radar from IAI and all of this with no additional IOC certification and testing before manufacture?
Again I don't want to rain on the parade so I made my earlier post and left it at that. But it seems to me there are still a lot of questions to be answered and still an actual order to be confirmed before this is a sure thing. If and when that happens it'll be a big day for Indian aviation and something Indians should absolutely celebrate!
Has HAL and/or associated suppliers confirmed 100+ unit orders and their current efforts to begin ramp up to achieve those numbers? The reports on MK1-A to be accepted instead of the current MK1 also seem strange to me as they speak of a 1000kg weight reduction on an approx. 6500kg aircraft; that seems pretty spectacular to me. Also now a full AESA Radar from IAI and all of this with no additional IOC certification and testing before manufacture?
Again I don't want to rain on the parade so I made my earlier post and left it at that. But it seems to me there are still a lot of questions to be answered and still an actual order to be confirmed before this is a sure thing. If and when that happens it'll be a big day for Indian aviation and something Indians should absolutely celebrate!
i agree on the weight reduction with you .
if they reduce 1000 kg they would need all thoe aerodynamic tests all over again.
as for the Israeli radar , the primary AAM' of the Tejas will be Derby and Python ,both of which are Israeli and shouldn't give much problems in integration.
the problem will be when the Astra comes under production.
the real problem will be if the DRDO gets the UTTAM AESA to clear its trials,
it was supposed to get FOC in December.
it will be a problem to integrate the Israeli Missiles with an Indian radar, if they don't share the source codes
and according to my friends , some of whom play golf near the HAL old airport,
the DRDO Radar testbed Hack has apparently woken up from its slumber and has been flying around frequently. the only reason could be that the UTTAM is under airborne trials
as for IOC /FOC
it could be as the IAF chief said,
batch by batch upgrade without change in weight,
and off course any upgrade has to be proven first, weapons trials etc.
But Time Will Tell, as you said.
After purchase of 36 Dassault fighters from France, India tells its air force to buy LCA , part of Modi 's "Made-in-india" campaign to compete with Pakistan's JF-17 program,although LCA 's avionics and engines are all imported. Anyway, And its air force is Not too happy about that, first of all, its air force consider LCA is outdated, and limited ranged but most important of all, its pilot leery about the safety of the plane.